Sarah McBride

It was his classic rambling mess, but a classic rambling mess that has real consequences, not only for Denmark and Greenland, not only for NATO, but for the United States.

First of all, if the president really wants Greenland, he should learn its name and be able to differentiate it between Greenland and Iceland.

But if you're going to try to... If you're going to seize it, you should probably learn what its name is.

But, you know, I just came back from this CODEL and...

I cannot begin to encapsulate in words just how deep the fear, the pain, the indignity is for both the Danes and specifically, of course, the Greenlandic people.

And despite that, they are still very passionate about the U.S.-Danish partnership and alliance.

They're obviously still passionate about NATO.

And there is quite literally

nothing that they aren't willing to give us short of Greenland itself and undermining sovereignty and territorial integrity and the right of self-determination of Greenlanders.

There's nothing short of that that they aren't willing to give us.

And that was true before all of this saber rattling by the president.

And so this, as a colleague of mine said, it

benefits us not at all and risks everything all at the same time.

And I think people have to understand that this is essentially this president's Crimea.

And if he is able

through coercion and intimidation, through economic warfare, if he is able to take Greenland, it completely shatters the foundation of NATO, which I also think based on the speech, he doesn't actually fully understand.

And he said if Russia or China were to do anything in Greenland, that Denmark would not be able to respond by themselves.

That's literally the whole point of NATO.

It's collective defense.

And the president has said the only way to actually truly secure Greenland is for the United States to own it and seize it, which also implicitly suggests that the United States is turning its back on Article 5, that we will only defend places that we have territorial control over.